Region 9 National Forests
Exploring Historical Fire Regimes with LANDFIRE data
Curious about the historical fire regimes and to practice using parameterized reports in R, I put together this simple dashboard using US Forest Service admin boundaries (https://data.fs.usda.gov/geodata/edw/datasets.php?dsetCategory=boundaries) and LANDFIRE’s Biophysical Settings Data (https://landfire.gov/vegetation/bps).
A few fun facts emerged:
Click on the forest to get a link to a custom report
Map of historical Mean Fire Return Invervals made with LANDFIRE Biophysical Settings data (https://landfire.gov/vegetation/bps).